Cinnamon–Red Wine Coricos

One of Mexico’s sixty-eight distinct Indigenous peoples, the Rarámuri of La Sierra Madre and Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, make a version of coricos using pinole, grinding and toasting their own corn. In communities and rural settlements in Baja California, Sonora, and Sinaloa, you’ll find homemade coricos made with masa harina. Home cooks bake batches of these ring-shaped cookies year-round, but especially for Catholic Holy Week and Easter. In larger cities, commercial versions are sold in s